The use of pigmented maize varieties has increased due to their high anthocyanins content, but very few studies are reported about the starch properties of these grains. The aim of this work was to isolate the starch granules from pigmented blue maize and carry out the morphological, physicochemical, and biochemical characterization studies. The proximate composition of starch granules showed h...

This scientific opinion reports on an evaluation of a risk assessment for placing on the market the genetically modified insect resistant and herbicide tolerant maize Bt11xGA21 for food and feed uses, import and processing. Conventional breeding methods were used in the production of maize Bt11xGA21 from inbred lines of the respective parental events. The structural integrity of the inserts in ...

In this opinion, the GMO Panelassessed the five-event stack maize MON87427xMON89034x1507xMON88017x59122 and its 25 subcombinations, independently of their origin. The GMO Panelhas previously assessed the five single events combined to produce this five-event stack maize and 11 subcombinations of these events and did not identify safety concerns. No new data on the single events or their previou...

Low yield of maize continues to affect the livelihood of smallholder farmers in the Zabzugu-Tatale area despite the introduction of a high yielding Obatanpa maize variety. The study used a cross-sectional survey design with 240 randomly sampled household heads growing maize to examine determinants of adoption of Obatampa varieties (IMVs) by farmers in the Zabzugu-Tatale area in the Northern Reg...

Single agent doxorubin was introduced for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma beginning in the 1970’s. Since then, combination therapies with an anthracylcine backbone are commonly used, but have failed to show significant improvements in survival compared to single agent doxorubicin. TH-302, a pro-drug activated by tumor hypoxia, is a promising new therapeutic agent for soft tissue sarcomas. ...

Maize is the major crop in Europe and the second most widely-cultivated genetically modified (GM) crop in the world after soybeans. Maize is one of the only GM crops commercially grown in Europe (along with potato). Since maize is a cross-pollinated crop relying on wind for the dispersal of its pollen, pollen flow between neighboring maize fields is one of the major potential on-farm sources of...

Genome wide selection and new methods of maize breeding The objectives of this work were to verify the accuracy of the Genome Wide Selection method (GWS) in the maize breeding for nutritional stress conditions and propose new breeding methods based on GWS. The efficiency of two components of use of nitrogen and phosphorus (absorption and utilization) was estimated in 41 single-cross hybrids ass...

Arabidopsis thaliana provides an excellent experimental plant system for molecular genetics because of its remarkably small genome size, near absence of dispersed middle repetitive DNA, and short life cycle. We have cloned and determined the nucleotide sequence of a single-copy gene from A. thaliana likely to be the gene encoding alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1...